Novascotia

I’ve had little time and energy to shoot photos lately. I was hoping our weekend camping would provide some opportunities but the weather was very uninspiring, cloudy and opressively hot and humid. However while out for a swim, the clouds did get a little dramatic and I like this tree on the coast of the island. All I had was my iPhone and it really went to town on this image. Foreground is overemphasized for sure, and the tree doesn’t really appear to be the subject anymore, but I still liked the end result as practice if nothing else.

An alarming number of my favorite photos come from Peggy’s Cove, frankly I need to find some new locations. However it’s a family favorite for us and on this particular morning there was some nice diffused light from nearby fog. The first composition here is one of my all-time favorites and one I’ve never spotted before. Something about the lines in the image seems to work.

We missed the absolutely epic solar storm the night before, something I’ll regret for a good long while. However the following night forecast still looked pretty good, so we packed up and went out roaming around for a break in the clouds. Burnt Coat Head was where we ended up and I was able to capture this with a long exposure. Not much was visible to the eye. It got even better later that night but we were long gone unfortunately. Aurora photography requires detachment from sleep I haven’t yet perfected.

Found some neat conditions at Nova Scotia’s Mavilette Beach on the cusp of very thick fog, but not fully engulfed. Made for some interesting photos. Fuji’s Classic Neg works nicely on the fog images I think.